378 pages : 22 cm

Translation of L'apparition du livre

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Preliminaries: The introduction of paper into Europe -- 1.1 The progress of paper -- 1.2 Preconditions of the growth of paper-making: Natural and industrial -- 1.3 Commercial factors -- 1.4 The coming of printing and the development of the paper industry -- 2. The technical problems and their solution -- 2.1 The wood-cut, ancestor of the book? -- 2.2 The 'discovery' of printing -- 2.3 The making of the type -- 2.4 Composition and impression -- 2.5 Imposition -- 2.6 The Chinese precedent -- 3. The book: Its visual appearance -- 3.1 Type founts -- 3.2 Inside the book: Title page, colophon and printer's mark -- 3.3 The text and format of the book -- 3.4 Illustration -- 3.5 Clothing the book: The binding -- 4. The book as a commodity -- 4.1 Costs -- 4.2 The problem of finance -- 5. The little world of the book -- 5.1 The journeymen -- 5.2 The masters -- 5.3 From the humanist printer to the bookseller of the enlightenment -- 5.4 Authors and their rights -- 6. The geography of the book -- 6.1 The journeys of printers -- 6.2 Places to set up business -- 6.3 Geography and publishing -- 6.4 Printing conquers the world -- A. The Slav countries: Bohemia and Moravia; Poland; The southern Slavs; Russia -- B. The new world -- C. The far east -- 7. The book trade -- 7.1 Some basic data: Sizes of editions -- 7.2 Some problems for the trade -- 7.3 Business methods at the time of the book-fairs -- 7.4 Towards new business methods -- 7.5 Privilege and piracy -- 7.6 Censorship and banned books -- 8. The book as a force for change -- 8.1 From manuscript to printed book -- 8.2 Humanism and the book -- 8.3 The book and the reformation -- 8.4 Printing and language

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